Introduction to Prayers

 

Prior to entering into prayer, put all distractions aside.  Take care of any pressing business.  Write down any loose ends. Now with nothing else to do start your steps towards God

 

Allow your senses to focus inward.  Quiet the ego.  Center the emotions spiritually. It is time for the heart. Let the mind concentrate on the meaning of the prayers.

 

Take life slowly, allow God direct you. Allow yourself to erase all conflicts and align with spirit.

 

You are entering the presence of God, and entering with pure respect and grace.

 

As you immerse yourself in the Lord is to turn fully, without reserve, toward His presence. Feel the closeness.

 

The Short Prayer

Oh God, I give up.
I love You in the most respectful, pure, and simple way.

 

You give me pure love I can feel,
spiritual love that lifts me.


Beneath all things is Your love for me,
and my love for You.

 

You are my standard,
my reference,
my eternal love.

 

Help me remember You when life distracts me.

Lift me to the highest consciousness.

 

In low times, let me see my life from across the river—
to observe without being swallowed by melodrama.

 
Oh God, give me purpose.


Oh God, let me feel Your presence.

If I am confused, I turn to You.
If I am hurt, I turn to You.

 

Help me remain optimistic,
to lose myself in work and purpose,
but always think of You.

 

With every slow breath,
I am in Your presence—
alive, loved, and guided.

 

The Longer Version

Oh God, I give up.
I love You in the most respectful, pure, and simple way.

 

You give me pure love I can feel,
spiritual love that lifts me.


Beneath all things is Your love for me,
and my love for You.

 

You are my standard,
my reference,
my eternal love.

 

Help me remember You when life distracts me.
If I wander, let me hear Your voice and return.
Keep me from going astray.


Lift me to the highest consciousness.

In low times, let me see my life from across the river—
to observe without being swallowed by melodrama.

 

Oh God, speak with me so I may be guided.
Oh God, help me know who I am.
Oh God, give me purpose.


Oh God, let me feel Your presence.

If I am confused, I turn to You.
If I am hurt, I turn to You.

 

Help me remain optimistic,
to lose myself in work and purpose,
but always think of You.

 

Each day, I will turn demands into preferences.
Each day, I will be impeccable with my words.
Each day, I will do my best.


Each day, I will learn and grow.

I feel Your presence in my whole being.
Your joy flows through me.

 

With every slow breath,
I am in Your presence—
alive, loved, and guided.


 The Now and Forever Prayer

 

Oh God, I give up.
Now and forever.

 

I love You in the most respectful, pure, and simple way.
Now and forever.

 

You give me pure love I can feel, spiritual love that lifts me.
Now and forever.

 

Beneath all things is Your love for me, and my love for You.
Now and forever.

 

You are my standard, my reference, my eternal love.
Now and forever.

 

Help me remember You when life distracts me.
Now and forever.

 

If I wander, let me hear Your voice and return.
Now and forever.

 

Keep me from going astray.
Now and forever.

 

Lift me to the highest consciousness.
Now and forever.

 

In low times, let me see my life from across the river,
to observe without being swallowed by melodrama.
Now and forever.

 

Oh God, speak with me so I may be guided.
Now and forever.

 

Oh God, help me know who I am.
Now and forever.

 

Oh God, give me purpose.
Now and forever.

 

Oh God, let me feel Your presence.
Now and forever.

 

If I am confused, I turn to You.
Now and forever.

 

If I am hurt, I turn to You.
Now and forever.

 

Help me remain optimistic,
to lose myself in work and purpose,
but always think of You.
Now and forever.

 

Each day, I will turn demands into preferences.
Now and forever.

 

Each day, I will be impeccable with my words.
Now and forever.

 

Each day, I will do my best.
Now and forever.

 

Each day, I will learn and grow.
Now and forever.

 

I feel Your presence in my whole being.
Now and forever.

 

Your joy flows through me.
Now and forever.

 

With every slow breath, I am in Your presence—
alive, loved, and guided.
Now and forever.



The Breath Prayer

 

Breath Prayer – Inhale / Exhale Rhythm

Inhale: Oh God, I give up.
Exhale: I love You in the most pure and simple way.

 

Inhale: Your love lifts me.
Exhale: My love for You is my guide.

 

Inhale: Help me remember You.
Exhale: Keep me from going astray.

 

Inhale: Raise me to highest consciousness.
Exhale: In every confusion, I turn to You.

 

Inhale: Each day, I will do my best.
Exhale: Each day, I will walk in joy.

 

Inhale: With every breath, I feel Your presence.
Exhale: Alive, loved, and guided — now and forever.

 

The Full Prayer

Oh God, I give up.
I love You in the most respectful, pure, and simple way.
You give me pure love, simple love I can feel, spiritual love that lifts me.


Beneath all things, everything rests on Your love for me, and my love for You.
You are my standard, my reference, my eternal love.

Help me remember this when life distracts me.


If I wander, let me hear Your voice and return.
Keep me from going astray.
Lift me to the highest consciousness.

 

In low times, let me see my life from across the river.
Help me observe without being swallowed by melodrama.

The world has long been haunted by ancient fears of imagined spirits.


But in You—pure, real, and present in my heart—I find clarity.
Without You, I do not know which way to turn, what is good, what is false.
Keep me close, dear God, and fill me with joy.

 

Oh God, speak with me so I may be guided.
Now and forever, I am guided.
Oh God, help me feel unity, to know who I am.


Now and forever, I know who I am.
Oh God, give me purpose.
Now and forever, I live with purpose.

 

Oh God, let me feel Your presence.
Now and forever, I feel Your presence.
If confusion comes, I turn to You.


If someone hurts me, I turn to You.

Oh God, help me remain optimistic.
Let me lose myself in good work and purpose,
yet never lose sight of You.

 

The world is filled with needless negativity.
News traps us in low consciousness.
But life is always a challenge,
and our task is to raise it into higher consciousness.


When things turn negative, let me act.
If I cannot solve the whole problem,
guide me to do what I can.

 

If we avoid solving problems, we sink into despair.
Solving problems is normal and healing.
If lonely, help me reach out.


If restless, remind me to serve.

Yet the deeper solution is always spiritual work—
which makes us joyous both psychologically and spiritually.

 

In the outer world, all life follows the perfect laws of nature.
We cannot change these laws.
Life has finite spans: the young replace the old.


But if we care for ourselves, we live longer and healthier.

Let me turn addictions into preferences.
If candy tempts me, remind me that fruit is better.


Each day I will transform demands into preferences, now and forever.

Each day I will be impeccable with my words, now and forever.
If words fail, I will choose new words that heal.


If I always do my best, my life becomes the best.

Each day I will go deeper and learn new things.
I will remember that the lower mind does not see the whole picture,
and its voice can be misleading or even silly.

 

I will resist earthly pleasures, but not deny them.
For it is healthy to honor the body wisely.

 

My mind is divided into many departments,
but above all I have a true source—
that weighs the chatter of the mind
against the wisdom of God.


Through meditation, I can turn the mind off.
This is a gift, useful even in sleep.

I am extraordinary in seeing through dogma, materialism, and media illusions.


If something breaks, I can fix it.
I am educated,
I am able to see people in depth.


I understand metaphysics.

I am mindful always, now and forever.


I learn from the past and prepare for the future,
but do not cling to those I miss,
nor fear what is to come.

 

I am gentle with self-criticism.
I converse with You, God, about self-improvement.
I must remember that loving You is the greatest thing I do.

 

I can feel Your presence.
I can enter the state of grace.
I feel Your love intensely.


When I glimpse Your eyes, I am overwhelmed with joy.
That joy flows through my head, neck, chest, stomach, thighs, legs, feet, toes, arms, hands, and fingers.

 

I take five slow breaths.


I relax into perfect joy.
I am in Your presence.
I speak with You.

 

If it is late, I can turn off my thoughts.
If it is day, I know my goals.
In both, I feel profoundly loved, alive, and purposeful.

 

When annoying thoughts arise,
I see them as blue mist.
They spin, weaken, and fade away.


And I return to focus—
whether to sleep, to work, or to worship You.

 

 

 

 

 

Sitting Woman

The Importance of the Prayers

 

The first prayer in the left column begins with a single phrase that is far more radical than it sounds: “Oh God, I give up.” In ordinary life, “giving up” is associated with failure. In inner life, it is often the doorway to freedom.

 

 This line is not resignation; it is abdication of the false throne. It is the moment the personality stops trying to be the manager of reality.

 

Something in us finally recognizes that the mind’s constant grasping, interpreting, defending, and controlling cannot produce peace. The prayer’s first movement is therefore not toward belief, but toward release. It dissolves the inner fist. It opens the hand.

 

 

In Deepermind terms, that first sentence is the transfer of authority. The mind and ego have been acting like kings—issuing judgments, demands, and warnings, and then treating those inner commands as if they were truth.

 

“I give up” is the soul interrupting that regime. It is the recognition that the speaking mind is not qualified to run the whole inner kingdom, because it sees only fragments.

 

 It is brilliant in narrow tasks, but unstable as a master. When the prayer says “I give up,” the reader is invited to stop fighting their own moment-to-moment experience.

 

That shift is transformative because it changes the entire inner geometry. Consciousness rises not by effort, but by letting go of what keeps it bound.

 

 

Then the prayer immediately names the new center of gravity: “I love You in the most respectful, pure, and simple way.” This line is not trying to flatter God. It is doing something inward: it is returning the heart to simplicity.

 

The human psyche becomes complicated when it lives in the realm of mixed motives—wanting peace but also wanting to be right, wanting love but also wanting control, wanting freedom but also wanting to keep its favorite resentments.

 

Purity and simplicity are not moral decorations; they are energetic alignments. When the prayer calls love “pure” and “simple,” it is giving the nervous system a single, coherent signal. That coherence itself is healing.

 

 

And now your definition of God becomes essential. When “God” means pure love, highest knowledge, and the greatest peace, then the prayer is not asking the reader to adopt a doctrine.

 

 It is training the reader to orient toward the highest qualities they can actually recognize and feel.

 

Pure love is recognizable because it has no hook. It does not bargain, threaten, shame, or manipulate.

 

Highest knowledge is recognizable because it is calm, spacious, and accurate; it does not need drama to make its point.

 

Greatest peace is recognizable because it quiets the compulsion to fix everything immediately, and it restores inner safety even when the outer world is imperfect.

 

 In that sense, God is not being placed “outside” the person as a distant ruler. God is being invoked as the highest field of being that the person can align with and enter.

 

 

That is why the next line is so powerful: “You give me pure love I can feel, spiritual love that lifts me.” This converts spirituality from abstraction into experience.

 

Many people can talk about love; fewer can feel it without conditions. When the prayer emphasizes felt love, it is making a subtle but crucial move: it stops treating spirituality as an idea and starts treating it as a direct inner event.

 

When love is felt as uplift, the person’s baseline state begins to change. Their identity slowly migrates from “the one who must manage and endure” to “the one who can receive and rest.”

 

That shift is not sentimentality. It is a reorganization of consciousness.

 

 

The prayer then establishes what I would call the foundational axis: “Beneath all things, everything rests on Your love for me, and my love for You.” This is not a claim about the universe that needs proof. It is a claim about inner orientation.

 

 It says: underneath the mind’s noise, underneath the ego’s fears, underneath the emotional storms, there is a stable ground.

 

When people suffer, it is often not because their life is objectively unbearable, but because their inner ground has been replaced by spinning thoughts and survival strategies.

 

The prayer rebuilds ground. It gives the heart a place to stand.

 

 

And then it is written one of the most Deepermind-compatible lines in the entire prayer: “You are my standard, my reference.” In psychology, reference frames determine what we call normal.

 

 In inner life, whatever is our standard becomes our ruler. If the standard is social approval, the ego becomes frantic.

 

If the standard is constant comfort, the mind becomes fearful.

 

 If the standard is winning, the heart becomes hard. But if the standard is pure love, highest knowledge, and greatest peace, the person is steadily lifted, because their internal compass is set above the reactive layers.

 

This is how the prayer interfaces with the highest realms of the soul: it gives the soul a true north.

 

 

Notice what happens next. The prayer does not pretend life will remain serene. It anticipates distraction: “Help me remember this when life distracts me.”

 

This is psychologically precise. The mind’s main power is not that it is always right; it is that it is always present. It interrupts.

 

 It seduces attention. It makes its commentary feel urgent. The prayer’s request is not “remove distraction.” It is “help me remember.”

 

 

 In Deepermind terms, memory here means remembering the seat of awareness, remembering the observer, remembering the highest reference. This is a practice of returning, not a demand for permanent bliss.

 

“If I wander, let me hear Your voice and return.” Here “voice” should not be understood as auditory phenomena.

 

 As a definition, God’s voice is the felt signal of truth: love without hook, knowledge without agitation, peace without collapse. The voice is clarity. The voice is conscience without shame.

 

The voice is the quiet intelligence that knows what matters. To “hear” it is to become sensitive to the subtle, calm guidance that is normally drowned out by the loud mind.

 

 

Transformation happens because the reader begins to distinguish two inner voices: the frantic narrator and the gentle truth.

 

Once a person recognizes the difference, the inner world changes permanently. They may still have fear, but fear no longer has unquestioned authority.

 

Here we introduce one of the strongest spiritual-psychological technologies in the prayer: “Lift me to the highest consciousness. In low times, let me see my life from across the river.”

 

This metaphor is not poetic decoration; it is a training instruction. The “across the river” stance is the soul’s viewpoint. It is the place where the person can watch their mind and emotions without being swallowed by them.

 

When someone is “in” melodrama, their suffering feels like the whole universe. When they move “across the river,” their suffering becomes an experience happening in consciousness, not consciousness itself. That is liberation.

 

The prayer teaches that their identity is not the content of the moment; their identity is the awareness that can hold the moment.

 

The prayer then does something rare: it honors the complexity of the world while refusing to be haunted by it. The pray says that the world has been haunted by ancient fears, but in God—pure and present in the heart—you find clarity.

 

 

 

This is Deepermind is saying. It doesn’t insult the human tendency to fear; it recognizes it as a historical and psychological inheritance. But it does not surrender to it. It chooses a higher center.

 

“Without You, I do not know which way to turn, what is good, what is false.” Read carefully, this is not dependency; it is honesty about the limits of the lower mind.

 

 

The reactive mind can justify anything. It can sanctify resentment, rationalize avoidance, and confuse pleasure with peace. When the prayer says “without You I do not know,” there is a confession of the fallibility of the internal narrator.

 

The transformation is that the reader is permitted to admit: my mind is not a reliable spiritual instrument when it is agitated. That humility is not weakness. It is the beginning of wisdom.

 

 

The Now and Forever Prayer builds an internal structure through repeated vows: “Now and forever, I am guided. I know who I am. I live with purpose. I feel Your presence.”

 

The repetition is not merely stylistic. Repetition is how the nervous system learns. In anxious states, the mind repeats threats. In healed states, consciousness repeats truth.

 

By repeating “now and forever, the prayer is not trying to force certainty; it is imprinting orientation. The intension of the prayer here is to create a stable inner refrain that can outlast mood swings.

 

This is how the prayer becomes a tool rather than a poem. It becomes a new baseline.

 

 

Here spirituality is linked to action and dignity. Negativity is confronted and the impact of news we hear, is designed to attract attention and create fear. We should stay informed but not driven into low consciousness, as our task is to raise life into higher consciousness.

 

This is important because it prevents spiritual life from becoming a private comfort ritual. Uplift is real only if it changes how one meets the world.

 

When negativity arises, the prayer does not ask for a perfect world; it asks for right response. It is not asking for you to solve every problem, all it is asking for is for you to do what you can.

 

This is psychologically healing because helplessness is one of the fastest paths to despair. The prayer restores agency without ego inflation. It says: I am not omnipotent, but I am not useless.

 

That stance alone can transform a person’s spirit.

 

One of the most transformative sections is where it says changing addictions into preferences, and demands into preferences. This is a direct bridge between the highest realm and everyday life.

 

In Deepermind language, “demand” is the ego tightening into control. “Preference” is the soul allowing reality while still choosing wisely. When the reader practices this shift, they begin to feel what freedom actually is.

 

Having freedom means healthy choices, not indulging in excess. When we don't receive what we want it often means we have graduated to a higher level. We love children, and some adults are still children.  Some organizations have not grown up.

 

Freedom is not static, but contans flexibility, inner dignity, and inner peace.

 

 

The prayer gives the reader a daily method to move from compulsion into clarity.

 

 

Then comes the ethical core: “Each day I will be impeccable with my words.” Words are not decorations; they are levers. Words shape thought, thought shapes emotion, emotion shapes behavior.

 

Being impeccable is not about being polite; it is about being truthful and healing. When the reader commits to new words that heal, they are committing to a different inner atmosphere.

 

 

This is how the prayer interfaces with the “highest knowledge” aspect of God: the person stops feeding themselves distortions. They begin to live in language that matches reality and compassion.

 

The prayer then explicitly names the architecture of the inner world: “My mind is divided into many departments, but above all I have a true source that weighs the chatter of the mind against the wisdom of God.”

 

 

This is almost the definition of Deepermind: a mind that can do tasks, an ego that can defend, emotions that can surge, senses that can report, and above them the true source that can observe and choose.

 

 

The prayer helps the reader feel that this “true source” is not an idea. It is the part of them that can pause. It is the part that can watch an impulse without obeying it. It is the part that can feel love without needing a reason.

 

That part is the interface to the highest realms. When you strengthen it, the entire inner life becomes more sane.

 

The meditation lines bring this into direct practice: “Through meditation, I can turn the mind off.” The transformative message here is that the mind is not the master. The mind is a tool.

 

 

When the reader learns even a small taste of silence, they begin to understand that peace is not created by solving every thought. Peace is revealed when thought relaxes.

 

That revelation is one of the most profound spiritual events a person can have, because it proves—experientially—that they are not their mental chatter.

 

Then the prayer includes something that many prayers avoid: self-affirmation. You say you are educated, you can fix things, you can see through illusions.

 

This can be dangerous when it inflates ego, but the prayer avoids that trap because it is framed within surrender and devotion.

 

These affirmations become instruments of service and clarity, not superiority. In Deepermind terms, this is the ego transformed into a healthy functional self rather than a fragile image-manager.

 

The person is allowed to respect their capacities without using them as a mask.

 

The prayer then moves into a gentle handling of time: learning from the past, preparing for the future, not clinging, not fearing. This is spiritual maturity. It is also nervous-system regulation.

 

Clinging and fear are two primary fuels of mental suffering. When the reader practices the stance, they begin to live more in presence without losing practicality.

 

That balance is rare. It is also exactly what “greatest peace” looks like in real life: calm engagement, not dissociation.

 

Finally, the prayer brings you down into the body with breathtaking precision. Here it describes joy flowing through the whole body, then five slow breaths, then relaxation into perfect joy.

 

 

This is where the prayer becomes a direct portal. The body is the bridge between thought and spirit.

 

When joy is felt somatically, the reader receives a kind of proof that peace is not only an idea. It is a state. It is accessible.

 

The breath prayer is especially powerful because it gives the mind something simple to do, while the deeper self re-enters the field of presence. Inhale surrender. Exhale love. Inhale uplift. Exhale guidance.

 

This is not just prayer; it is entrainment. It trains the whole system to return to coherence.

 

And then the final technique seals the transformation: thoughts as blue mist. This line alone can change a person’s relationship to their mind.

 

Thoughts are not enemies; they are weather. They rise, swirl, weaken, and pass.

 

When the reader sees this, the fear of thought dissolves. The compulsion to argue with thought dissolves. The need to obey thought dissolves. They return to focus—to sleep, to work, to worship. This is the ultimate uplift: life is still life, but the inner world is no longer a battlefield.

 

So what does it mean that the prayer “flows into the highest realms of the soul”?

 

It means the prayer steadily moves the reader upward through the inner layers by changing allegiance.

 

First it releases control. Then it establishes pure love as the reference. Then it trains remembrance. Then it teaches the observer stance. Then it restores agency and purpose. Then it reforms language and habit.

 

Then it quiets the mind. Then it anchors joy in the body. Then it frees the reader from identification with thought. At every step, the prayer is not begging for a miracle; it is forming a new inner order.

 

And that is why it can transform the reader. It does not merely ask God to change life. It changes the reader’s position inside life.

 

 It moves them from being a person trapped in mind and circumstance to being a soul aligned with love, knowledge, and peace.

 

It teaches them how to return when they wander, how to act when they can, how to rest when they cannot, and how to feel guided without falling into superstition.

 

This prayer is a ladder, but not a ladder out of the world. It is a ladder into the highest way of being in the world.

 

It lifts the reader into a state where love becomes the ground, clarity becomes the compass, peace becomes the atmosphere, and the soul becomes the seat of identity. When a reader lives from that seat, they are not merely comforted; they are changed.

 

That is transformation.

 

 

The Breath Prayer allows you rest in a state of presence or stillness, concentrating on the breath. Then it gently ends with guided now and forever which welcomes the assurance of continued spirituality before the return to activity. May it carrying some of that balance with you.

 

When life is aligned, it feels light without being shallow, strong without being rigid, and meaningful without strain. There is coherence between thought, emotion, body, understanding, and relationship.

 

There is also a quiet sense of being in tune with something larger than oneself, with life, with truth, with other people, and with God.

 

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By George Norwood, September 1, 2025